An Internet for the People : : The Politics and Promise of craigslist / / Jessa Lingel.
How craigslist champions openness, democracy, and other vanishing principles of the early webBegun by Craig Newmark as an e-mail to some friends about cool events happening around San Francisco, craigslist is now the leading classifieds service on the planet. It is also a throwback to the early inte...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 6 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Politics and Promise of craigslist
- Part I
- 1. Becoming Craig's List: San Francisco Roots and Web 1.0 Ethics
- 2. The Death and Life of Classified Ads: A Media History of craigslist
- 3. From Sex Workers to Data Hacks: Craigslist's Courtroom Battles
- Part II
- 4. Craigslist, the Secondary Market, and Politics of Value
- 5. Craigslist Gigs, Class Politics, and a Gentrifying Internet
- 6. People Seeking People: Craigslist, Online Dating, and Social Stigma
- 7. Craigslist's People Problems: Politics and Failures of Trust
- Conclusion: The Case for Keeping the Internet Weird
- Methods Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index